CSS 14 – Research in public health and human and social sciences
Last updated on 31 August 2026
Scope
The CSS 14 sectoral scientific committee is interested in all public health research aimed at understanding the epidemics of HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis – knowledge, intervention, impact – in France and in countries with low and intermediate resources, in particular:
Research into the prevalence and incidence of HIV infection, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis;
Large-scale surveys of behaviour and social perceptions of HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis;
Research on the therapeutic context: people with the disease, professionals, institutions, compliance;
Other research in human and social sciences.
Chair
Marie PREAU
Unit UMR 1296 ‘Radiation: Defence, Health, Environment’ University Lumière Lyon 2, Institute of Psychology
Gilles WANDELER
University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
Members
Marie BALLIF
(Epidemiologist, Bern University Hospital / ISPM, Switzerland.)
Anders BOYD
(Epidemiologist and biostatistician at GGD Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Désiré Lucien DAHOUROU
(Epidemiologist, IRSS Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
Sylvie DEUFFIC
(Modeler, Epidemiologist, and Health Economist, IAME U1137 Inserm, Paris, France)
Joël Fabrice DJAHA
(Sociologist, Félix Houphouët-Boigny University / PAC-CI, Côte d’Ivoire)
Sofia FATHI
(Southern Association Representative – Community Research Officer Association for the Fight Against SIDA, Casablanca, Morocco)
Marion FIORENTINO
(Public Health / Epidemiology INSERM/IRD/Aix Marseille University, SESSTIM, Marseille, France)
Anne GOSSELIN
(Demographer, INED Public Health, Aubervilliers, France)
Thi Giang HOANG
(Public Health Faculty of Public Health, Haiphong University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam)
Geoffroy LIEGEON
(Infectious Disease Physician, Université Paris Cité / AP-HP Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France)
Mathieu MAHEU-GIROUX
(Modelling epidemiologist McGill University, Montréal, Canada)
Charlotte MARTIN
(Infectious disease specialist, Saint-Pierre University Hospital / Free University of Brussels, Belgium)
Albert Gautier NDIONE
(Socio-anthropologist Department of Sociology Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal)
Mélanie PLAZY
(Epidemiologist, interventional research ISPED Bordeaux, France)
Christel PROTIERE
(Economist, psycho-sociologist, Inserm U1290 RESHAPE, Lyon, France)
Cristina ROSATI
(Northern Association Representative – TRT5 Inter-Association Group for Treatment & Therapeutic Research, Family Committee, Paris, France)
Stéphanie TCHIOMBIANO
(Political Science and Public Health University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France)
Isidore TRAORE
(Epidemiologist, Muraz Centre, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso)